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Wellness

Offering a wide range of wellness programs, resources and tools, OptumHealth Care Solutions helps consumers understand their overall health status and take an active role in their personal health and wellness. In addition to online tools, we offer programs in Healthy Weight, Tobacco Cessation, Wellness Coaching, and Worksite Wellness.

Solutions:


100 Smart Choices — Prevention and Healthy Living Guide

Unhealthy lifestyles are the primary contributors to the six leading causes of death in the U.S., which collectively account for more than 70 percent of all deaths. 100 Smart Choices is a motivating prevention and healthy living guide that helps readers get healthy and stay healthy.

Taking Care Health Newsletter

Lifestyle accounts for 87.5 percent of health care claims costs.1 The Taking Care newsletter covers the most current health care topics and provides members with the information they need to make healthy lifestyle decisions every day.


1Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne (IPFW) 2006 Study, United Business Media. “New IPFW Study Finds 87 percent of Health Claims Lifestyle Related — Study Using Benicomp(R) Advantage Reinforces Value of Rewarding Healthy Lifestyle Choices.” http://sev.prnewswire.com/health-care-hospitals/20070104/LATH06204012007-1.html, Accessed March 2008.
Consumer Solutions
OptumHealth Consumer Solutions provides personalized health portals, Web-based tools and marketing services that engage consumer populations in conjunction with care, wellness or behavioral management programs.
Healthy Weight
OptumHealth’s Healthy Weight program is a nonsurgical weight-management solution that focuses on changing an individual’s behavior and lifestyle choices to produce long-lasting results and improve their quality of life.
National Reminders

Chronic disease is the leading cause of direct health care costs. Researchers estimate 75 percent of all health care costs stem directly from preventable chronic health conditions, yet only 1 percent of the $1.9 trillion dollars spent on health care in the United States goes to protecting health and preventing illness and injury.1,2 Care Solutions’ National Reminders Program works to change this by emphasizing prevention, early detection and treatment.


1Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. National Health Expenditures and Selected Economic Indicators, Levels and Average Annual Percent Change: Selected Calendar Years 1990-2013. Washington, D.C.: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Office of the Actuary; 2004.
2Institute of Medicine. The Future of the Public’s Health in the 21st Century. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press; 2002.
Neonatal Resource Services
Neonatal care is required for one in every 10 live births. In the United States, hospital charges for all infants totaled $36.7 billion in 2003. Premature or low birth-weight babies accounted for nearly half of that, $18.1 billion.1 OptumHealth’s Neonatal Resource Services (NRS) helps control and reduce the cost of neonatal care.

1. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. “Analysis of March of Dimes Perinatal Data Center using National Inpatient Sample”, November 2005.

Tobacco Cessation

Smoking is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States.1 Numerous studies show that the sooner a person quits, the better their chances become at avoiding long-term complications. OptumHealth Care Solutions’ QuitPower® Advanced Tobacco Cessation program is designed to help individuals realize these health benefits by quitting tobacco for good.


1Most Behaviors Preceding Major Causes of Preventable Death Have Begun By Young Adulthood. National Institutes of Health 2006. http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/jan2006/nichd-11.htm
Wellness Coaching
With a good coach, everyone has the innate ability to improve. OptumHealth's Wellness Coaching gives members the tools, information and encouragement they need to achieve a healthier lifestyle. Our goal is to help consumers make the proactive and permanent choices that support life-long health and wellness.
Worksite Wellness
Want to increase employee attendance, productivity and retention while reducing medical costs? The Worksite Wellness program empowers employers and employees to take an active role in understanding and improving their health and wellness, and their lives both on and off the job.
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